God unchanging

God unchanging

A.W. Tozer “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”

there are a couple of mis-conceptions that people have of God and of Christianity

first is that God’s love for us changes

When things are going good in our lives God must love me

and when things start getting bad God must have turned away from us

or He is judging us

This is faulty thinking

it takes God and makes Him subject to our emotions and our feelings

Do you know we all Change-

that is what life is we change

as we get older we move form baby to toddler

for teen to youth adult

then eventually from Life to death

our emotions change

our friendships change

for some of us our crushes change

Change and mortality are the twin diseases that afflict mankind

one Poet named Omar making at somewhat of a joke about this once wrote, “Don’t slap that clay so roughly,” he exhorts the potter, “that may be your grandfather’s dust you make so free with”

All of us are changing

But God never changes “

“All that God is He has always been, and all that He has been and is He will ever be”

Nothing that God has ever said bout Himself will be modified-

Malachi 3:6–7 CSB

“Because I, the Lord, have not changed, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed. “Since the days of your fathers, you have turned from my statutes; you have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of Armies. Yet you ask, “How can we return?”

Mal 3:6-7

God and His word will not Change

he is immutable- unchanging, un-able to change

He is perfect

For us the the possibility for redemption lies in our ability to change

2 Corinthians 5:17 CSB

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!

we are made new

The liar becomes truthful

the proud become humble

the broken become whole

the lustful become pure

1 Corinthians 6:11 CSB

And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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when we come to God it is us relying on the work that God is doing in our life

we exchange a life of sin and the death that come with it for a new life full of hope and a future

This is another mis conception:

that as christian we are perfect

but the gospel of Christ teaches us something different

we can’t do this on our own

- God hasn’t Changed this is why you are destroyed by sin

this is why you are destroyed for turning away

from doubting God

from running from God

from falling back into sin

Because of God being unchanging

What Does God not changing have to do with us?

God never changes His moods or cools off in His affections or loses enthusiasm

His attitude toward sin is the same now as it was when He drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden when they fell,

And His attitude toward the sinner is the same as when He stretched out His hands and Cried

Matthew 11:28 CSB

“Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

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God’s word shows us What He feels for us

when we were lost God says

Luke 19:10 CSB

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”

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When we feel like we are unlovable or that no one loves us

Romans 5:8 CSB

But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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Or when we feel filthy and unclean because of the choses that we have made

1 John 1:9 CSB

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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God doesn’t Change

His promises never change

His word never Changes

His love Never changes

Hebrews 13:8 CSB

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

and because of that we have

we can hold onto the promise that

Joshua 1:9 CSB

Haven’t I commanded you: be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

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God is always with us

Or the promise that God hears our cries

Psalm 34:18 CSB

The Lord is near the brokenhearted; he saves those crushed in spirit.

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And that God is still working in your life

Philippians 1:6 CSB

I am sure of this, that he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Because we can change God is changing us

He is shaping us

Sometimes the situations we go through are hard but God still turns them around for His glory

Joseph in the Old Testament

Betrayed by His brothers

sold into slavery by them

falsely accused and ends up in a prison cell

Yet at the end of His story He says

Genesis 50:20 CSB

You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people.

Can we in our times of Trouble say “God I know you are unchangeable, your love and your feels for me, Help me to change into what you have for me.”

Philippians 3:12–14 CSB

Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.